BNSF has changed the once sleepy BN town of Everett into a major terminal with many new tracks and and trains all day/night. Every train that goes to Canada needs a crew qualified to run to Canada. Every crew that goes east across Stevens Pass and the 2.2% needs a qualified crew. The rest of the crews toda...

So all of 2016 I never found the time to get a picture of the Rocky Mountaineer that runs every Saturday in the summer from Seattle to Vancouver BC. Same schedule for 2017 and a perfect time to pass through Everett WA and this time I was in position. First 3-pictures of the Rocky Mountaineer passing my old...

Do you think that there's a derail there very near​ that home signal? Well, do ya?No one appears to ​have been injured when an Amtrak passenger train d​erailed on Sunday afternoon in Steilacoom, near Ch​ambers Bay, the Pierce County Sheriffs office is r​eporting.Photos posted on Twitter showed that th..​.

BNSF Everett went from being an important "Junction" to becoming an important "Hub". All kinds of new trackwork the last decade with the re-do of the ex-NP route to Lowell from SeaLine Jct. Then the addition the "Marsh Tracks" at Delta Yard to accomidate coal and oi...

Train death on video: Pierce medical examiner battles with railroadThe freight train that killed Ronnie Stirgus earlier this year had a camera that captured his final moments on video.Now Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway officials accuse the Pierce County Medical Examiner of using an illeg...

EDGEMONT | Two BNSF Railway employees died after being struck by a train Tuesday morning in Edgemont, according to a representative of the company.The incident happened around 10:15 a.m., said a BNSF spokeswoman, who added that further details would be released as the company is able.http://rap...

Warren Buffett struck media gold with a 2012 investment in debt-laden Media General Inc. Now the famed investor may try to reprise that success by supporting a bid for Yahoo's internet assets.The Berkshire Hathaway Inc chairman is backing a consortium that includes Quicken Loans Inc founder Dan G...

BNsf, AKA; 2LARRCO in bj.com parlance would like to share this: We are NOT going out of business! No. In fact we have a new market builder for our decli... A small dip in energy shipments. BNSF loves pizza because it helps keep the economy moving. Were happy to be a part of the process. Last year, BNSF move...

But you can bet it won't be Gus, as in Melonas. No​t ol' gus because he's slipping, and takin' his ey​es off the system while everything falls apart rig​ht around him! It may be time for Gus ta say &quot​;Bye-bye" and retire.http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2015/11/07/sheriff-t​rain-derails-in...

Guy's I very seldom post on BJ. But I scan through the posts almost daily. I've been retired for a few years now and have heard about something that has me a bit bewildered. Understand the Bastards at BNsf have devised another anal fornication to TY&E called " Grand Pool. " Seniority me...

Rail Giant BNSF Accused of Telling Arbitrator: Our​ Way or The HighwayBy Rick Schmitt on September 10, 2015A run-of-the-mill employment dispute could become ​a major embarrassment for railroad giant BNSF over​ an allegation that a senior executive threatened ​to blackball an arbitrator fro...

Uncle Warren is gonna screw somebody over, per Snippy CAHT remarks, and the first commenter knows it.BNSF doesn't regret anything! They always talk how they are family and employee minded and care about communities. Train traffic isn't down, not unless we are all imagining all these trains rollin...

These fucking railroad companies make Snippy so pr​oud to have spent 40 years with them. http://www.columbian.com/news/2015/jul/02/bnsf-r​ailway-whistleblower-awarded-125-million/ http://q​13fox.com/2015/07/02/whistleb...

It will be interesting to see how many trains go by during each day of TV coverage at Chambers Bay as the joint UP/BNSF Seattle-Portland double track mainline is western boundry line for the golf course. There maybe a couple holes right next to the tracks and this is a busy mainline with as many as 40-50 f...

2015 is the 2nd year BNSF has sponsered the Seattle Mariners and Root TV when a Mariner hits a home run. "The BNSF Blast" results in a BNSF train whistle from current locomotive as a Mariner rounds the bases after a HR. The BNSF mainline passes by the eastside of Safeco Field and you can hear...